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Best of Forum Webinar - Creating Management Systems to Meet REACH, RoHS and other Product R

Best of the Forum Webinar

The Best of Forum series features encore webinar presentations of the top-rated sessions from the 19th Annual EHS Management Forum. These interactive presentations are peer-led case studies from leading companies that represent the latest in EHS and sustainability management. If you missed the Forum, this series is a cost effective way to benchmark your program, ask questions, and share the Forum experience with your team.

Is your management system ready to confront the challenges of both current and emerging EHS regulations?

Join representatives from Allergan Inc., Dean Foods, and Rosemont Inc. to examine how companies are creating management systems to manage and track the volumes of data required from suppliers to stay in compliance with REACH, RoHS and other product regulations.

Learn answers to questions that include:

What does a management system for this process look like?

How do you determine the information needed from suppliers?

Who is responsible for managing the process ?

Where do the resources come from?

You’ll leave this webinar with an understanding of the solutions your peers have implemented and new ideas for advancing your own efforts.

Sulaiman Hamidi has more than 17 years of experience developing, implementing and auditing environmental, health and safety programs in the pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. He currently leads Allergan's corporate health and safety, EHS Information Systems, and sustainability reporting functions. As a part of his current role, Mr. Hamidi works closely with research and development, sales and manufacturing functions to assess the EHS impact of products. He also helps manage customer inquires around integration of sustainability initiatives within Allergan.

Before joining the company, he led EHS programs at Watson Pharmaceuticals, and Baxter Healthcare. Mr. Hamidi is a Certified Safety Professions (CSP), and Certified Hazardous Material Manager (CHMM). He has a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine.

Mike Miller

Since July 2010, Michael Miller has been Global Director, Risk Management for Apex Tool Group LLC, the largest worldwide producer of industrial hand and power tools, with 7500 global employees spread over locations in 30 countries. Prior to his role at ATG, Mr. Miller was Global Director of EHS for Danaher's Tools and Components Segment, where he led the implementation and execution of a global EHS program aligned with lean manufacturing.

Previously, Mike has held positions of increasing responsibility in EHS at Textron and Texas Instruments. He has a degree from Clark University in Environmental Science and Policy and has done graduate work at Clark University, Columbia University and Bryant University.

Karen Yeadon

Karen Yeadon is Manager of Environment, Health and Safety for Rosemount Inc. During her 25 years in the EHS field, Ms. Yeadon has held a variety of positions in the private and public sectors. In her current position, which she has held for 11 years, her responsibilities include managing programs for Rosemount's 17 manufacturing locations on four continents. Her role has expanded in recent years to include global regulations and directives, and targeting the substances used in the production of finished goods.

Ms. Yeadon has a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota's Technological Leadership Institute.

Each year NAEM’s annual conference convenes more than 550 attendees for a three-day showcase of the latest strategies corporate environment, health, safety and sustainability (EHS&S) leaders are using to keep employees safe, minimize their company’s environmental footprint and deliver business value through sustainability programs.